RIDE 'EM COWBOY!
(Universal)
‘THIs latest Abbott and Costello farce is like all the other films: they have ‘madegood entertainment on the whole
if. you simply want.to laugh and: ere not worried about digging down into your sub-conscious to find out why you laugh. As usual, the jokes are a bit dogeared and the situations were by no means new when Chaplin was a boy, but still the laughs come across, and I am not going to be over-critical. And-to be
fair-there are one or two good jokes that haven’t been cracked in my hearing before. There are, of course, others in the cast besides’ Mr. Abbott and Mr. Costello. There is Dick Foran, the Singing Cow Boy. There is, it is true, no singing cow, but ‘the Merry Macs are heard at regular intervals, and Ro-mantic Interest is provided by a Miss Anne Gwynne, by bathing arfd riding beauties, Red Indian squawks, and so on. Ride ’Em Cowboy is, in fact, rather like an American sandwich — satisfying, if you don’t object to a bit of ham.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 181, 11 December 1942, Page 17
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177RIDE 'EM COWBOY! New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 181, 11 December 1942, Page 17
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